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This book has an eclectic collection of recipes to problems I didn’t even know I wanted solved! For example, I didn’t know I could virus scan my Windows OS using Knoppix. Many of this book’s recipes are so simple to use, all you need is to take 30 seconds to read the problem to see if it describes your pain. If so, then you implement the quick recipe. In many cases, you can skip the discussion. What do you care? You just want the problem solved. Of course, you’ll learn a lot more about Linux by reading the discussion. This book is worthwhile to keep on your bookshelf. It’ll gather dust until that one day when you must find a solution in 5 minutes. Then you’ll be happy to have it.

The collection covers the gamut from boot-ups, rpms, backups, and CVS to servers for web, printer, domain names, and mail. You may buy this book for one of its specific areas. Or you may buy it just for insurance for that one day when you need the solution and can’t find it in your admin guides. If you don’t need to do much admin tasks, you might find more daily use from the Linux Desktop Hacks book.
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